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Saturday, January 3, 2026
TopicIndia-Maldives

Topic: India-Maldives

Modi, Muizzu discussed Indian troop withdrawal at COP28. India agreed, claims Maldives President

Statements issued earlier by Maldivian and Indian governments on the bilateral meeting, however, did not mention this issue.

Maldives’s Muizzu meets Modi at COP28, tells Chinese official that ties with Beijing will ‘thrive’

Statements from Indian external affairs ministry & Maldives President's Office indicate Muizzu, Modi agreed to set up high-level committee to boost development, economic cooperation.

Rijiju to attend swearing-in of Maldives’ ‘India out’ president-elect Muizzu on 17 November

Modi had attended the swearing-in of incumbent president Ibrahim Solih in 2018. Muizzu ran on a platform of downsizing India’s influence in the Maldives.

Why President-elect Muizzu may not be able to remove Indian troops from Maldives ‘overnight’

For maintaining good relationship between two neighbours, negotiations will take place through diplomatic channels, suggests foreign policy observer.

India hasn’t lost Maldives to China. But Muizzu’s win shows Delhi was too sure about Solih

India was so confident about Ibrahim Solih and to decapitate Abdulla Yameen’s pro-China agenda that it forgot to take the others along in the Maldives.

Victory for ‘India Out’? What ‘pro-China’ Muizzu’s win in Maldives means for island nation & Delhi

Mohamed Muizzu, from People’s National Congress-Progressive Party of Maldives coalition, won around 54% votes in presidential polls against 46% for 'India-friendly' incumbent Ibrahim Solih.

Test for India-Maldives ties? Pro-China leader Mohamed Muizzu wins presidential election

Muizzu defeated ‘India-friendly’ incumbent Ibrahim Solih. Muizzu’s Progressive Party of Maldives in its previous tenure oversaw an influx of Chinese loans to island nation.

On Camera

Indian bureaucracy should be given incentives and rewards: MH Mody

Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.